This Orphaned Fox Story is Like a Real-Life Disney Movie

This heartwarming story is just as tear-jerking as The Fox and the Hound.

Remember that incredible, tear-jerking 1981 film The Fox and the Hound? It starts off with an unbearably adorable scene in which a kind elderly woman finds an orphaned fox shivering under a blanket, and takes him into her warm cottage, feeding him milk and rocking him in her armchair. It's the kind of scene that seems like it could only happen in an animated movie—except it's not.

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Back in April, Beau Ouimette, a metal-detecting enthusiast, and his wife, a veterinarian, stumbled upon a little fox that was injured and alone in a field in West Virginia. They brought the orphaned kit home and nursed her back to health, posting a video of the heartwarming process on YouTube that quickly went viral.

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Ultimately, just like the fox in Fox and the Hound, this cute creature had to be released back into her natural environment. But, luckily, these owners didn't just leave her in the woods like in the movie's most heartbreaking scene. Rather, they took her to the Blue Ridge Wildlife Center, where she was properly cared for before she and three of her fox friends were all reinitiated into the wild.

Now, the Huffington Post reports that a letter from the Wildlife Center indicates that the foxes have all completely recovered from their wounds and are happily adapting to the outside world. But, don't worry, the Center keeps an eye on them via a remote camera at the release site, just to make sure they're always looked after!